ABSTRACT

The cultivation of soil had existed since human knew the process of planting. One activity in
cultivating he soil is digging the hole for the plant. Commonly in Indonesia, for the industrial
scale farm, there is a development of digging machine by using four wheels tractor as the engine.
The machine is connected to three spots of connection behind the tractor. The engine of turning
around to move the drill digger is coming from PTO which is connected to the gear box and
continued to the drill. Because the price is expensive, the development will be instructed to the
development of two wheels tractor. Because two wheels tractor is well exist in the society, this
tool can easily be connected and stringed to the digging machine which is in the form of drill but
the tractor which is used must be two wheels tractor with PTO.

During the time, Indonesian farmer make the plant hole by using human sources with tools like
hoe, dibbler and harrow which are categorized into ineffective tools. So, Matondang (2008) is
designing and constructing digging machine with two wheels tractor engine. This tool
technically can be used well in the laboratory but if it is used for certain plant such as teak in rain
field, the tool should be investigated more for the proper of technical and financial aspect.

The purposes of this research are (1) To study the working experiment of digging tool with two
wheels tractor as the engine (2) To do the financial analysis of this tool. The research was done
at 8 January 2009 until the end in the field of Desa Karang Widoro, Dau Sub Regency, Malang,
and the laboratory of Agriculture engineering and power of Brawijaya University.

The tools which are used in this research are; two wheels tractor, digging tool, hoe,, fuel meter,
rollmeter, stopwatch, ruler. The parameter of testing which was done for plant digging machine
with two wheels tractor is: fuel consumption (ml/s), digging quality (diameter & the deep of the
hole), working capacity, the count of tool financial analysis, t test.

The result of digging can be viewed that the fastest process of digging is done in the field after
the rain, but when the cleaning need more time, and also when the soil have not been rained. The
consumption of fuel is in the biggest amount before the rain.

In the count of financial analysis for 1.5 hours of the process, this digging tool was able to
produce 27 holes with lost of energy 24.21% (Actual), with the cost of working per ha is Rp
1,360,800. The cost will be cheaper and quicker if the lost of energy can be decreased. The way
to decrease it is by adding v-belt become 2 or 3 or by changing v-belt with chain.

Key terms: Two wheels tractor, Plant digging machine, Hoe